Road Runner (Arcade)

Road Runner
Developer: Atari Games Publisher: Atari Games Platform: Arcade (Atari System 1) Released in US: July 1985 This game has hidden development-related text.

You're on the highway and Road Runner goes beep-beep
Eat all the seed or you might end up in a heap
Road Runner, Road Runner runs on the road all day
Sidestepping mines and cars and oil slicks in his way
Road Runner, the coyote's after you.
Road Runner, if he catches you you're through.

Error Text

A number of descriptive error messages are in the main game ROM, though there's no way to trigger them in the game, even if the game does crash.

RNDOSEED.C (Birdseed Function)
SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNDOSEED.C Too many seeds at seed_hor. SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNDOSEED.C Erased Too Many Seeds.
RNDOSIGN.C (Sign Function)
SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNDOSIGN.C Xsign index too large SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNDOSIGN.C overflowed sign table
RNHST.C (High Score Table)
SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNHST.C UP character SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNHST.C DOWN Character
RNMAIN.C (Main Engine)
SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMAIN.C BAD PHASE SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMAIN.C bad ATTRACT MODE SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMAIN.C BAD entry_mode
RNMESS.C (Message Handler)
SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMESS.C BAD COST VALUE SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMESS.C BAD CREDITS SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMESS.C BAD LEVEL SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMESS.C Mlevel( OFF ) NOT VALID SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMESS.C BAD LEVEL SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMESS.C Mendlevel( OFF ) NOT VALID SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMESS.C BAD SEED NUMBER SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMESS.C BAD WEC NUMBER SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMESS.C BAD HOP COUNT SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMESS.C BAD DRINK NUMBER SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMESS.C BAD INDEX FOR RR FRACTURED LATIN SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMESS.C BAD INDEX FOR WEC FRACTURED LATIN SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMESS.C BAD ATTRACT MESSAGE INDEX FOR WRITE
RMMWEC.C (Move Wile E. Coyote)
SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNMVWEC.C BAD toy_type
RNSCORE.C (Score / Bonus Score Code)
SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNSCORE.C Illegal bonus count
RNSOUND.C (Sound Engine)
SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNSOUND.C Sound queue overflowed. SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNSOUND.C Sound echo failed.
RMVWRR.C (VRAM Write - Road Runner)
SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNVWRR.C BAD animation for RR
RMVWSCROLL.C (VRAM Write - Scrolling)
SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNVWSCROLL.C bad speed
RMVWWEC.C (VRAM Write - Wile E. Coyote)
SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNVWWEC.C Bad wec_toy_type. SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNVWWEC.C Bad wec_toy_type.
RMVWXPLD.C (VRAM Write - Exploding Character)
SYS$USERDISK:[RUNNER.MAIN]RNVWXPLD.C bad explosion picture count

(Source: Original TCRF research)